Beggar Hadda
Destiny of life, Beggar Hadda who died a beggar and mad...
Born in 1920 among the Blessed Barbars, in the surroundings of Souk Ahras, she was one of the first women to sing for women and for men, unlike singers in towns before independence who had strictly orchestras. feminine.
This singer who toured the countryside and the main Algerian cities had a particular destiny in the sense that she was sterile and divorced twice. Married to an elderly man without his consent at the age of 12, by her mother, herself a singer, she fled the marital home to lead an adventurous life by hosting family celebrations until she met , at the age of 20, the man who would turn her life upside down: her flautist and her future husband, Brahim Bendabêche, whom she saw, for the first time, at the end of a wedding party near El Mechrouha. Beggar Hadda, who remained a mystery for a long time because she refused to see her photo on the covers of her records, had made her debut with Guessabas de Boukebche.
After a career of more than 50 years, ignored by the press and television, until 1990, she settled permanently in Annaba. The one who established herself as the successor of the great Djarmouni will make a final appearance in 1992 during Abdelkrim Sekkar's show, Bonsoir Culture.
The muse of the Mujahines
The Aurès mountain of multi-millennial Amazigh resistance is the real and sentimental territory of Hadda. The terrible battles fought by the Mujahideen during the war of liberation find an echo in his songs of deep sincerity. Mujahideen still alive testify that in their shelters, on their combat paths, they lifted their morale and were galvanized with the Bedouie melodies of Beggar Hadda and those of Aissa Djermouni. They sang “Demou sayeh bin lwidane” (His blood flows in streams) and other songs of patriotic mobilization like “Yal Djoundi Khouya” (soldier, oh my brother) cries of the wounded soul declaimed by Hadda in a tone poignantly frank. Hadda's patriotic songs, heavy committed poems which exalt the volunteer who faces the enemy's fire and who dies for the land and the flag, are true reports testifying to the harsh reality of the Aurès maquis and the values of loyalty and sacrifice which carried the liberating fight from colonial oppression.
Hadda Beggar had a very sad end to her life, living begging in madness and wandering in the streets of Annaba, before dying lonely and abandoned.
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